Young Lawyers Look Outside Legal Profession To Meet Their Needs

The Huffington Post:

Earning a degree -- and accumulating student loan debt -- drives today's young lawyers to get creative with their livelihoods.

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Comments

[Keyop]

06:49 AM on 08/02/2011

College is a sham right now since there aren't any jobs. Save the money and just take one of those crappy jobs you'll be working anyway. Use the student loan money and get a new car, it doesn't give you lots of test.

[thestargazer]

02:40 AM on 08/02/2011

A Lawyer that represents him/herself has a d/o/u/c/h/e/b/a/g for a client!

[thestargazer]

02:37 AM on 08/02/2011

If you're a lawyer and walking dogs to make money then your likely not a good lawyer at all!

[Justice76]

11:39 PM on 08/01/2011

It's not just lawyers. People finishing college, graduate school and post-graduate programs are coming out buried under a mountain of debt and finding it challenging to locate employment in their chosen field of study.

[offmyrocker]

08:23 PM on 08/01/2011

Well the world could use about 100% less lawyers

[dporterdvd]

07:00 PM on 08/01/2011

Large corporations are outsourcing much of their routine contract work to lawyers in India who work cheap. With outsourcing likely to increase, the job market for new lawyers will worsen.

Grad students would be much better off going to medical school.

[garymc8]

06:07 PM on 08/01/2011

Good . Too many laywers.

[wowme]

05:51 PM on 08/01/2011

They should just sue someone

[El Chingaso]

05:34 PM on 08/01/2011

Just think of the student loan debt many of these folks are toting around, too. Maybe they should "sue" (class action level) the law schools that snookered them...like lawyers do others. Justice, baby. But, hey, drive thru customer rep gigs...are in abundance at $7 to $8 bucks per hour.

[norepublicanleftbehind]

04:33 PM on 08/01/2011

In addition it is not just "young" lawyers but new attorneys as well, both women and men.

[garymc8]

06:07 PM on 08/01/2011

(R)ACISTS

[WebSloth]

03:55 PM on 08/01/2011

actually the photo shows a man doing the job of a lawyer, namely picking up the mess after his 'clients'.

[TucsonDean]

08:38 PM on 08/01/2011

Does he get to keep 1/3 of the "pickings?"

[Rayme]

03:45 PM on 08/01/2011

A lot of lawyers are not finding jobs in their profession. They are right, too few people even do any research to find out if the profession that they want to get into has a shortage or a need for more people in that profession.

[ztck5356]

02:44 PM on 08/01/2011

If I were a young man today, I'd rather be a plumber than a lawyer. We are glutted with lawyers.
Plumbers make good money too and they are better at dealing with shat.

[frank day]

02:45 PM on 08/01/2011

Maybe,
I recently posted that I would have become a diesel mechanic.
I had 2 diesel mechanics tell me that business is awful.
So, who knows?

[frank day]

02:42 PM on 08/01/2011

So much for the myth that education matters.

[gomezrules]

01:57 PM on 08/01/2011

GASP! Lawyers are being impacted by the realities of the Obama economy? Man, as we all know, we can't have ENOUGH lawyers in this country. Oh the horror, the horror!